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Sanskrit, Once a lingua franca of kings across all India

Sanskrit, Once a lingua franca of kings across all India

The language Sanskrit was once used as a lingua franca all over the nation during the ancient and medieval era. Most of the inscriptions of those days  were in Sanskrit and those inscriptions were found in large numbers in Tamil Nadu, said Dr Chitra Madhavan, a noted historian, here on Thursday. Delivering the lecture on [...]

April 10, 2013 HHR News updates 0

Bangladeshi scholar harps on importance of Sanskrit

Bangladeshi scholar harps on importance of Sanskrit

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April 10, 2013 HHR Archives, News updates 0

Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study

Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study

HYDERABAD: The great Indian divide along north-south lines now stands blurred. A pathbreaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers on ancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship between all Indians and more importantly, the hitherto believed “fact” that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might after all, be [...]

April 10, 2013 HHR Archives, News updates 0

Four bloggers arrested amid crackdown in Bangladesh

Four bloggers arrested amid crackdown in Bangladesh

Four bloggers arrested amid crackdown in Bangladesh Bangladeshi bloggers form a human chain to protest the detention of their colleagues. (AFP/Munir uz Zaman) New York : The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the recent arrests of four Bangladeshi bloggers in Dhaka in connection with their Internet posts that police said hurt the religious [...]

April 8, 2013 HHR Bangladesh, News updates 0

The Cry of the River Yamuna that is so Polluted it’s become a Sea of Foam

The Cry of the River Yamuna that is so Polluted it’s become a Sea of Foam

Devotees went for a traditional bath to mark the Karthik Purnima religious ceremony celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu calendar month of Karthik Images of the foam-coated river show the extent of the pollution of the Yamuna around New Delhi Indian government has spent nearly £200 million trying to clean up the [...]

April 1, 2013 HHR Analysis/Insights, HHR Videos, News updates 0

Obama White House embraces Yoga amid conservative contortions

Obama White House embraces Yoga amid conservative contortions

WASHINGTON: The White House has wholeheartedly embraced Yoga as a worthy physical activity at a time some schools in America are railing against the ancient Indian practice, saying it promotes Hinduism. The White House announced last week that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will include a ‘yoga garden’ for children and their [...]

April 1, 2013 HHR Archives, News updates, Spirituality/Culture 0

Pakistan : Festival of colours or fear?

Pakistan : Festival of colours or fear?

Hindu school teacher gives her son an Arabic name to avoid persecution KARACHI: Thirty-two year old school teacher, a Hindu widow Shanti Kumari named her second son Zafar when class fellows and friends of her elder son Prakash Kumar kept asking every time about Hindu gods and goddesses, they saw in Indian films. “I never [...]

March 31, 2013 HHR News updates, Pakistan 0

2 more temples destroyed in Bangaladesh

2 more temples destroyed in Bangaladesh

2 more temples destroyed in Bangaladesh Mumbai / Kolkata, March 29 : Minority Hindus continue to be at receiving end of Jihadi terror in Bangaladesh with new incidents of attacks appearing every day. Jihadi criminals set fire to a temple in Rangamati and vandalised another in Naogaon early yesterday, The Daily Star reported. Shree Shree [...]

March 30, 2013 HHR Bangladesh, News updates 0

Video : Malaysian Hindu Leader Waythamoorthy’s Interview

Video : Malaysian Hindu Leader Waythamoorthy’s Interview

Waythamoorthy Ponnusamy has been on a hunger strike for nearly three weeks demanding equal rights for Hindus and other minorities. He is trying to get the ruling coalition and political Opposition to accept the demands of his Indian rights organisation Hindraf, which aims to improve the rights and living conditions of Malaysian Indians in their [...]

March 29, 2013 HHR Malaysia, News updates 0

The Murder of Two Swamis

The Murder of Two Swamis

The brutal murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati (1927–2008) was blamed for sparking of a wave of killings where rampaging Hindus massacred innocent Christians in India’s eastern state of Orissa. At least that was the view from reading the western media outlets which rely heavily on extremist and hardcore fundamentalist Christian outfits for their information. [...]

March 21, 2013 Ranbir Singh Analysis/Insights, Archives, News updates 0
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